Odd Couple Oddities
Gillian Anderson, who stared in the X-Files, was probably getting sick of her co-star David Duchoveny making all the news with his sex addiction and divorce. Well, the 40-year-old actress had a baby boy the other day. She named the …
Why do People Under Federal Investigation Love Todd Gloria?
Blue and gold Stephen Whitburn signs keep on appearing on my neighbor's lawns. I just noticed some new ones today. I also noticed that Ron Saatoff just got some more indictments for his role in creating our billion dollar pension …
Cinema Valore - Burn After Reading
On the movie section of the Reader website, I was surprised to see a few people hated this movie. I really don't think there's a been a better movie at the theatres, since this has been out. And...I'm not the …
Saturday Night Sarah
I've always found it odd when certain people get credit for being funny. Everyone is praising Sarah Palin for "showing up" on Saturday Night Live. I walked in the door at 11:30, and remembered to turn it on (I'm one …
Politics
The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again …
Trick or Treat -- Football Edition
In seven hours, I'm going to be watching the Chargers win another one. But, I was thinking about trick plays in the NFL. It's because the Union-Tribune did a story about them a few days ago. Although, they focused on …
Divorces in the News
Well, a few divorces kind of surprised me. First, the Tea Leoni and David Duchovny one. When he checked himself into a clinic for "sexual addiction", I figured that meant she was going to stay with him. The statement they …
Walk the Vote! A Pre-emptive Strike on Voter Fraud in Our Fine City
So a friend of mine went to the Registrars Office to vote the other day as he had for years and was told that he could only vote at the Registrars office if he was going on vacation. Knowing full …
W - Not the Hotel, the Movie
I logged onto this, not sure what I would even write about. And, I noticed for the last few days, the advertisement for the Oliver Stone movie W. And, I have a lot of problems with this. No, not our …
Will SEDC Board Members Testify on Smith Raises?... and other issues
Word comes from our crime-fighting daily paper that the Southeastern Economic Development Corporation (SEDC) board might have actually approved raises for its now-ex president Carolyn Smith, practically doubling her pay in the decade and a half that she was the …
Beer - Making People Do Stupid Things since 1878!
I saw this story in the Union-Tribune last week. Then I heard Jim Rome talking about it on his radio show. Google's free Gmail service is putting "Mail Goggles" on their computers. It's funny. We all know about "beer goggles." …
Music
Have you ever looked up song lyrics and found that you had been singing it wrong? In talking with a friend, he wanted to challenge me to a contest. For many years I have been saying I knew all the …
Moped Mishap Costs NBA Star Millions
I don't follow the NBA like I did as a teenager. I can't name every starting guard on every team. I just know the all-stars, and enjoy watching highlights on ESPN. I heard that the Golden State Warriors suspended Monta …
No Call List
The Patriarch of My Neighborhood
Various & sundry
My sense of fashion was assaulted again! I thought & hoped that the baseball playoffs would be on Fox, but TBS is the network of choice for the AL side of things! Speaking of Craig Sager, how you ever seen …
The Lowe Down (Nick Lowe concert review)
My friend tried talking me into seeing Nick Lowe at the El Rey Theatre in L.A. This was about a year ago. I told him I loved Lowe, but I couldn’t justify a two hour drive for a concert. We …
After the Crash of 2008
It's not that I am hoping for the collapse of Western Civilization, but I am hoping that there will be a change in it after the subprime/derivative debacle that some of us have taken the time to notice in the …
Christmas Crackdown, 2004
It was Christmas day, in the early morning hours. I lay snuggled under my fuzzy electric throw, lost to the world in a kaleidoscope of sugar plum dreams. Stockings were thumbtacked to my fake fireplace and I roused to sniff …